How to pronounce “leach”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
• A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
• (nautical) Alternative spelling of leech.
• A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
• (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
• (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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